doing
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
Interjection
- The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
Origin
Onomatopoeic.
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Noun
- A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
- This is his doing. (= "He did it.")
- Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!
- Mr. Dawe further calls his voyage “A Record of some Strange Doings at Sea.” They are strange doings, in fact, and yet not as novel as might be expected. They involve mutiny, piracy, shipwreck, and fights with Savages...
Origin
See do.
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Derived
doingness doings evildoing harmdoing nondoing non-doing rightdoing take some doing well-doing wrongdoing
Verb
- present participle and gerund of do